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  <div class="section" id="changing-token-expiration-time-to-live">
<h1>Changing token expiration (time-to-live)<a class="headerlink" href="#changing-token-expiration-time-to-live" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>An access token has a “time-to-live” (ttl), which is the maximum time
that the access token will be valid for use within the application. With
the Usergrid, you can change the default ttl for all application user
tokens, set the ttl for an individual token at the time of creation, or
revoke one or more tokens. This gives you a high degree of control over
access to your Usergrid account and data store.</p>
<div class="section" id="default-ttl">
<h2>Default ttl<a class="headerlink" href="#default-ttl" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>By default, all tokens have a system-defined time-to-live of 7 days
(604800 seconds). Note that Token ttl is specified in milliseconds, but
when a token is created, the API response will return the ttl in
seconds.</p>
</div>
<div class="section" id="changing-the-default-ttl">
<h2>Changing the default ttl<a class="headerlink" href="#changing-the-default-ttl" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>You can change the default ttl for all application user tokens (that is,
tokens associated with a user entity) by updating the application
entity’s accesstokenttl property. Changing the default ttl will only
affect new tokens. Any existing tokens will not be affected.</p>
<p>Please note that this does not apply to application client, organization
client or admin user tokens. For more on obtaining tokens for these
other authorization levels, see <a class="reference external" href="authenticating-users-and-application-clients.html">Authenticating users and application
clients</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: If you set ttl=0, the token will never expire. This can pose a
security risk and should be used with caution.</p>
<div class="section" id="request-syntax">
<h3>Request syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#request-syntax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>curl -X PUT https://api.usergrid.com/&lt;org_name&gt;/&lt;app_name&gt; -d &#39;{&quot;accesstokenttl&quot;:&lt;ttl_in_milliseconds&gt;}&#39;
</pre></div>
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<h3>Example Request<a class="headerlink" href="#example-request" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>curl -X PUT https://api.usergrid.com/your-org/your-app -d &#39;{&quot;accesstokenttl&quot;:&quot;1800000&quot;}&#39;
</pre></div>
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<h3>Example response<a class="headerlink" href="#example-response" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h3>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="p">{</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;action&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;put&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;application&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;d878de4r-99a7-11e3-b31d-5373d7165c2d&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;params&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;access_token&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s">&quot;DFR4d5M1mJmoEeOGVPncm-g9qgAAAURv_lfQ7uu6aYHjJJn7QCrGoVnvU-ob5Ko&quot;</span> <span class="p">]</span>
  <span class="p">},</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;uri&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;https://api.usergrid.com/amuramoto/secured&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;entities&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="p">{</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;uuid&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;d878de4r-99a7-11e3-b31d-5373d7165c2d&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;type&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;application&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;name&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;your-org/your-app&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;created&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1392843003032</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;modified&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1392843615777</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;accesstokenttl&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1800000</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;organizationName&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;your-org&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;applicationName&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;your-app&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;apigeeMobileConfig&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;{...}&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
    <span class="s">&quot;metadata&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">{</span>
      <span class="s">&quot;collections&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="p">[</span> <span class="s">&quot;activities&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;assets&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;devices&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;events&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;folders&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;groups&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;roles&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="s">&quot;users&quot;</span> <span class="p">]</span>
    <span class="p">}</span>
  <span class="p">}</span> <span class="p">],</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;timestamp&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">1392843615767</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;duration&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="mi">28</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;organization&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;your-org&quot;</span><span class="p">,</span>
  <span class="s">&quot;applicationName&quot;</span> <span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">&quot;your-app&quot;</span>
<span class="p">}</span>
</pre></div>
</div>
</div>
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<div class="section" id="changing-ttl-when-a-token-is-created">
<h2>Changing ttl when a token is created<a class="headerlink" href="#changing-ttl-when-a-token-is-created" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>When you request an access token, you can override its ttl by including
a ttl property in the body of the request when the token is created.
This applies to tokens for all authentication levels, including
application user, admin user, organization client, and application
client authentication levels.</p>
<p>The ttl must be equal to or less than the value of the application
entity&#8217;s accesstokenttl property. If you specify a ttl value greater
than the value of accesstokenttl, an error message is returned that
indicates the maximum time to live value that can be specified.</p>
<p>For example, the following would create an application user token with a
ttl of 180000000 milliseconds:</p>
<div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre>curl -X POST https://api.usergrid.com/your-org/your-app/token -d &#39;{&quot;username&quot;:&quot;someUser&quot;, &quot;password&quot;:&quot;somePassword&quot;, &quot;grant_type&quot;:&quot;password&quot;, &quot;ttl&quot;:&quot;180000000&quot;}&#39;
</pre></div>
</div>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: If you set ttl=0, the token will never expire. This can pose a
security risk and should be used with caution.</p>
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